Audio Journal of Medicine: Reporting from the 2006 Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), September 27 – 30, San Francisco

REFERENCE: Abstract L-1458
JONATHAN LI, University of California, San Francisco
A large meta-analysis presented at ICAAC supported the idea of giving short-course antibiotic regimens instead of extended-course in community-acquired pneumonia. Derek Thorne got the details from Jonathan Li of the University of California San Francisco.

REFERENCE: Abstract H-1734
ANDREW REDMOND, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
HIV/AIDS and malaria both kill huge numbers across the globe – and when they’re found together in one person, they become even more dangerous. That’s why ICAAC delegates were interested to see a study looking at the possible antimalarial effects of HIV protease inhibitors. Derek Thorne heard more from Andrew Redmond of the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital.

REFERENCE: Abstract C1-942
ALEXANDER MANKIN, University of Illinois at Chicago
Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus has once again found a way to develop resistance to an antibiotic – in this case, linezolid – and the mechanism leaves us marveling at nature. Derek Thorne found out more from Alexander Mankin of the University of Illinois at Chicago.